Man caught taking photos up a woman's skirt on Luas

Married father of one given suspended sentence for upskirting offence at Dublin court

The man was caught by a Luas passenger surreptitiously using his phone to take pictures up a woman’s skirt.

A man caught by a Luas passenger surreptitiously using his phone to take pictures up a woman’s skirt has been given a nine-month suspended sentence.

Francesco Lampasi, aged 43, of Belarmine Plaza, Stepaside, Dublin 18, pleaded guilty at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual nature on the southbound Green Line tram as from the city centre to Bride’s Glen on August 2, 2019.